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Inverted torch, Pere-Lachaise The draped cinerary urn is probably the most common nineteenth-century funerary symbol. Some nineteenth-century cemeteries appear to be a sea of urns. The drape can be …
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Treestone, Levallois-Perret Cemetery Symbolism Cemeteries are virtual encyclopedias of symbolism. The symbols on a person’s tomb may help to tell us something about the life of its inhabitant. Dead …
Kuwait Map Tourist Attractions
Simple Vault The most common tomb style in city’ cemeteries is a simple stone slab that covers a vault. Vaults are usually lined with cement and most vaults have …
Kenya Map Tourist Attractions
Columbarium, Pere-Lachaise Chapelles are small-scale mausoleums that can be seen throughout city cemeteries. The minimausoleums are great places to study architecture in diminutive form Chapelle-style tomb, Pere-Lachaise Exedrae These …
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Art Deco, Pere-Lachaise With the modern age has come a lack of ornament and hard, clean lines. By now, the age of ornament has passed (although, from time to …
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Modern Classicism, Pere-Lachaise Emerging at the end of the nineteenth century from this architectural morass was Art Nouveau. The style had a relatively short run on the scale of …
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Gothic, Montmartre Not all architecture fits into the customary architectural styles. Architects often blended totally unrelated styles and sometimes created styles of their own. At the end of the …
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Egyptian Revival, Cavetto Cornice, Vulture Wings and Cobras, Auteuil Another very popular form of Egyptian architecture in the cemetery is the obelisk, which is representative of a ray of …